With hundreds of options to choose from, how can corporations pick the right supply chain management (SCM) technology to meet their business goals? The answer, according to one consultant, comes in a single word:
Information lifecycle management (ILM) may well be a solution to the bulging-data problem for manufacturers, but it requires more than a hint of elbow grease to work well. There are certain aspects of ILM that IT managers should keep in mind.
Christie Digital Systems Inc. specializes in turning tiny pictures into huge, cinematic events. But when it came to updating its server infrastructure, the company went in the other direction, making a large IT investment into a small hit in the pocketbook.
As manufacturing firms create an ever-growing amount of information to be preserved on various sorts of high-tech storage media, it can be difficult for IT managers to keep apace, and ensure that their companies